Enabling Infrastructure as Code

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LinkedIn runs an internal Terraform as a service (TFaaS): remote execution with Azure blob storage, service-bus queues and workers running Terraform binaries. TFaaS adds T-FaaS import that generates IaC and PRs for existing resources, sandbox workspaces for fast ephemeral testing, drift detection with automated PR recommendations, and automatic Terraform version handling. Result: fabric build time drops from 6–9 months to 1–2 months; ~8,000 executions/month (40,000 peak), 500+ users, 2,000 workspaces, 7,000+ resources across 200 services.

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1. 0:00Infrastructure as Code intro
2. 1:53Reasons for IaC adoption
3. 5:24Terraform as a Service
4. 7:33TFaaS adoption strategies
5. 14:42Terraform provider ecosystem
6. 19:36TFaaS impact and metrics

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